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O-Block Louie: King Von’s Associate Reportedly Passes Away

BY Edwin Lamptey February 3, 2025 1:13 PM EDT

Various social media posts from loved ones and colleagues indicate that King Von’s close friend, O-Block Louie has passed on due to unknown circumstances.

While the details surrounding his death are hazy, people are nonetheless mourning the loss of his life and looking back at his miraculous survival of a gunshot wound to the head the night that his friend, King Von, died.

Police shot Louie in the head, and he later spoke of his full recovery and of that harrowing evening to DL Vlad.

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O-Block Louie was reportedly a close associate of King Von’s, whose legacy as a late Chicago rapper continues to loom large in many ways. For instance, Lul Tim recently engaged with a lot of media outlets about the night that he shot Von, regretting how things escalated to that level, and recalling some alleged details about what went down. It remains a very complicated and sensitive conversation, even if fans and the hip-hop media landscape continue to reckon with it in more unitary ways.

“At the end of the day, all this bulls**t that we’re talking about is stupid s**t that could have been handled a totally different way”, Quando Rondo remarked to DJ Akademiks concerning his feud with King Von.

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In other news, Diddy’s sons were recently on the verge of a full-blown brawl with Ray J at a recent Halloween party, but according to an exclusive report by TMZ, Chris Brown stepped in to prevent fisticuffs.

The news outlet reports that Diddy’s three sons, Christian, Quincy, and Justin, engaged in a tense confrontation with Ray J outside Tara Electra’s Unruly Agency Halloween party in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Sources indicate that after the party came to an end, Ray J exited the parking lot with his entourage, which included Amber Rose and manager David Weintraub, only to be met by Diddy’s three sons. 

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